AMD chipset drivers - downloads?

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NorthPole

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AMD seem recently to have removed any links to these from the Download Centre, which now only refers to graphics drivers. Is this deliberate? I did find a page by hunting all over the AMD site, but if users want the RAID drivers etc. it's not very helpful!
 
I'd be nice if they also included versions of drivers without all the catalyst control panel BS for those of us that need to put them into WIM images.
 
Dr. Zhivago said:
Go here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Select Integrated Motherboard Graphics, then choose your chipset series. Then, choose the next selection, whichever is the most appropriate, and then finally, your OS. That will get you to the Chipset downloads.

Hope that helps.
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Thanks Dr.Zhivago; in fact I got here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows 7 - 64 from the link you quoted. Not very helpful that the page is boldly headed 'AMD Graphics Drivers and Software' though!

 
I'm glad you were able to sort things out. However, the AMD driver links don't always translate and it's hard to link directly to downloads, if not impossible. So, that's why I suggested the path I did.
 
Just want to point out to anyone visiting this thread that what Dr. Zhivago posted works great (knew of it myself), unless you have a SB600 chipset. Then, you're screwed, because AMD in their infinite wisdom has drivers out there when you choose 6-series Chipsets that don't work for 6-series Chipsets. Don't bother informing them, they will direct you to the mobo manufacturer - why provide any of them then? AMD also doesn't know that... :nuts:
 
NorthPole said:
AMD seem recently to have removed any links to these from the Download Centre, which now only refers to graphics drivers. Is this deliberate? I did find a page by hunting all over the AMD site, but if users want the RAID drivers etc. it's not very helpful!
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(First, apologies if this happens to be old news for you...!...;))

You realize that when you install the latest Catalyst gpu driver suite, you update all of your chipset drivers at the same time...? Although the gpu drivers may be updated with every new version, regular chipset driver updates are few and far between--you get the latest chipset driver versions with the latest WHQL or beta drivers automatically, though.

Just for fun I updated the "chipset drivers" which provided me with 3.7.1540.43 AHCI & RAID drivers--from the "chipset driver" page. Then I updated by reinstalling the 14.7 rc1 gpu Cats, and wound up with the 3.7.1540.43 drivers all over again.

I always install gpu drivers using the "custom" install option (not the Express option) because before the install commences the routine lists all of the AMD drivers detected in the system, be they gpu drivers or just chipset drivers, and allows you to pick & choose among them--what you want to install or don't want to install, etc. The only thing I don't select for installation generally is the Raptor program, because that's just plain redundant...;)

Yea, but if you don't use the "custom" install option when you install a new Catalyst suite, you won't see the listing for the chipset drivers your system makes use of, and so naturally might think you need to go elsewhere to obtain the chipset drivers separately.

I'm not really sure why AMD even bothers with a separate "chipset driver" page anymore, although I know that AMD's USB 3.0 support is only found in the newer APU chipsets, so that might be why--although the APU Catalyst releases for APU chipsets (A88X, etc.) contain the same chipset drivers--but of course the older chipsets like the 970a and the 990fx, etc., don't provide any AMD USB 3.0 support. In my 970a system the driver is provided by the USB3.0 vendor--ASMedia.

It is way past time for AMD to update the AM3+ 9xx chipsets with PCIe3.x and usb3...way past time for a desktop Steamroller AM3+ 6/8-core cpu, too--but that's another issue...
 
WaltC said:
You realize that when you install the latest Catalyst gpu driver suite, you update all of your chipset drivers at the same time...
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not saying i disagree with you, but it's worth mentioning that in the kaveri build i just did, the amd usb ports didn't work after installing the 14.4 catalyst suite, I still had to go to the asrock website and download the "all-in-one" driver, which tells me something was left out...
 
wabbitslayer said:
not saying i disagree with you, but it's worth mentioning that in the kaveri build i just did, the amd usb ports didn't work after installing the 14.4 catalyst suite, I still had to go to the asrock website and download the "all-in-one" driver, which tells me something was left out...
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It's possible that it wasn't an AMD USB 3.0 controller? Probably third-party, and thus why the drivers aren't a part of AMD's chipset driver.
 
Redeemed said:
It's possible that it wasn't an AMD USB 3.0 controller? Probably third-party, and thus why the drivers aren't a part of AMD's chipset driver.
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well...could be. There are also two asMedia usb ports, BUT according to device manager, it was the amd ports that did not have drivers installed, along with the SMBus controiller. (Not just a visual error on my part, I looked at it several times, rebooted, checked it again b/c I thought it was so wonky.)
 
wabbitslayer said:
well...could be. There are also two asMedia usb ports, BUT according to device manager, it was the amd ports that did not have drivers installed, along with the SMBus controiller. (Not just a visual error on my part, I looked at it several times, rebooted, checked it again b/c I thought it was so wonky.)
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I've seen DevMgr report incorrect information for devices with missing drivers before. I never trust it. :lol:
 
WaltC said:
You realize that when you install the latest Catalyst gpu driver suite, you update all of your chipset drivers at the same time...?
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You seem to be overlooking the possibility of having an AMD motherboard but using another manufacturer's graphics card, e.g. Nvidia. Also, there are some AMD/ATI graphics card users who for one reason or another would prefer to stick with older drivers for their card, but would like the latest chipset drivers.
 
and the sata/chipset component was pulled form the latest whql 14.4 because of a **** up as well
 
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